Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes: > > The Python community covers a broad spectrum of use cases, and I > suspect that's one of the big reasons packaging can get so contentious > - the goals end up being in direct conflict. Currently, I've > identified at least half a dozen significant communities with very > different needs (the names aren't meant to be all encompassing, just > good representatives of each category, and many individuals will span > multiple categories depending on which hat they're wearing at the > time): >
One set of users not covered by your list is people who need to Cross-Compile Python to another CPU architecture (i.e. x86 to ARM/PowerPC) for use with embedded computers. Distutils does not handle this very well. If you want a recent overview of what these users go through you should see my talk from PyCon 2012: http://pyvideo.org/video/682/cross-compiling-python-c-extensions-for-embedde -Chris _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
